Movies Sold At Sundance 2. These are the movies sold at Sundance 2. Many of the films that premiere at the Sundance Film Festival are hoping to attract a distributor and find a bigger audience, be it in theaters around the country or distributed through digital VOD. Throughout the festival we will be reporting on all of the movies sold at Sundance 2. This list should help give you an idea about which movies may someday be available to you either theatrically of VOD. Author: The Jt Leroy Story (2016) SuicideWe’re including photo stills from each of the films along with all of the relevant information (director, cast, how much it sold for, the plot synopsis and more). The post is organized from newest to oldest, with the latest acquisitions on the top. Belgica. Acquired: February 1. By: Netflix. Purchase Price: Director: Felix van Groeningen. Starring: Stef Aerts, Tom Vermeir, Charlotte Vandermeersch, H. When Frank helps Belgica become the place to be for great music, beautiful people, and debauched fun, the brothers become business partners to expand the bar. Echoes of DeLillo. The Good Father by Noah Hawley. A gripping novel, with echoes of Don DeLillo, about a father’s reaction to his son’s act of homicide. Jeff Feuerzeig’s “Author: The JT LeRoy Story,” a documentary, offers a complex and deeply fascinating account of a decidedly unusual chapter in recent American. Diane Kruger has joined the cast of Justin Kelly's JT Leroy, the movie based on the true story of the hoax author starring Kristen Stewart. 7 Queer Films That Should Have Been Nominated For An Oscar This Year. Many of the films that premiere at the Sundance Film Festival are hoping to attract a distributor and find a. The Sundance Film Festival, one of the most presigious celluloid events in the world, kicks off Thursday in Park City, Utah. Here are the LGBT movies that will screen. Alexandra Schwartz writes about the Italian journalist Claudio Gatti’s probe into the true identity of Elena Ferrante, the author of the Neapolitan novels. Belgica quickly becomes bigger and better, and the brothers seem to have discovered the formula for success—until they learn that running a business on this scale is more complicated than they realized, and their relationship and personal lives suffer. Writer/director Felix van Groeningen (who directed the Academy Award–nominated Broken Circle Breakdown) bathes the screen in golden hues and kinetic energy, creating an immersive experience of the excess and euphoria of being in the hottest nightclub in town. Set to the eclectic sounds of acclaimed Belgian band Soulwax, this precisely crafted, fast- paced tale shows the brothers’ intoxicating ascent to success—and the crash and burn that follows. Below is our updated running tally of the films most frequently mentioned by individual critics on the year-end Top Ten lists. Note that if a critic ranks more than. Belgica is about living in the moment and realizing that moving forward is not only inevitable but necessary. White Girl. Acquired: February 1. By: Netflix. Purchase Price: Director: Elizabeth Wood. Starring: Morgan Saylor, Brian . Equipped with platinum blonde hair and a winning smile, college girl Leah (Morgan Saylor) seeks out pleasure in any form. She has two weeks before fall semester, and in between getting high with her roommate and snorting lines with her boss, she finds time to hit it off with a handsome, young Puerto Rican drug dealer named Blue. Within days, the two are selling dime bags to her affluent white colleagues, collecting fast cash, and living the high life. But their euphoria comes to a grinding halt once Blue is arrested and Leah’s left with a hefty amount of his coke. Does she sell it to save him or use it herself? Shot with a sharp eye for New York City, White Girl thrashes through an increasingly high- stakes game of hedonism where unspoken socio- economic tensions coupled with a blatant disregard for consequence converge into a shocking commentary on today’s youth culture. Saylor and Wood are forces to be reckoned with, unleashing a torrent of vulnerability and confidence that will leave audiences enticed and unsettled. NUTS! Acquired: February 1. By: Amazon. Purchase Price: Director: Penny Lane. Starring: Pope Brock, Gene Fowler, James Reardon, Megan Seaholm, Gene Tognacci, Thom Stylinski. Other Info: SVOD only — theatrical distributor TBDPlot Synopsis: NUTS! And that’s just the tipping point in this stranger- than- fiction tale. With the balls of a P. T. Barnum, the gonads of goats, and the wishful dreams of flaccid men, Brinkley amassed a fortune, was almost elected Governor of Kansas, invented junk mail and the infomercial, and built the world’s most powerful radio station. By the time all of the twists and turns of Brinkley’s story are revealed, NUTS! We’re reminded that our love of (and need for) compelling narratives is exactly what makes us so endlessly susceptible to being conned. But don’t be fooled here; Penny Lane is the real deal. The Eyes Of My Mother. Acquired: February 1. By: Magnet. Purchase Price: n/a. Director: Nicolas Pesce. Starring: Kika Magalh. One afternoon, a mysterious visitor horrifyingly shatters the idyll of Francisca’s family life, deeply traumatizing the young girl, but also awakening some unique curiosities. Though she clings to her increasingly reticent father, Francisca’s loneliness and scarred nature converge years later when her longing to connect with the world around her takes on a distinctly dark form. Shot in crisp black and white, the haunting, and at times disturbing, visual compositions of The Eyes of My Mother evoke its protagonist’s isolation and illuminate her deeply unbalanced worldview. Genre- inflected, but so strikingly unique as to defy categorization, writer/director Nicolas Pesce’s assured feature debut allows us only an elliptical presence in Francisca’s world, guiding our imaginations to follow her into peculiar, secret places. Southside With You. Acquired: February 1. By: Miramax/Roadside. Purchase Price: n/a. Director: Richard Tanne. Starring: Tika Sumpter and Parker Sawyers star as Michelle and Barack. Other Info: North American rights. Plot Synopsis: One Chicago afternoon in 1. Harvard Law summer associate named Barack Obama finagled a t. Her name was Michelle Robinson, and his pretense was a friendly outing to a community organizer meeting. In Michelle’s eyes, it was most certainly not a date. But as ice cream gives way to a stop at the Art Institute, and the community gathering conveniently becomes a chance for Barack to lecture brilliantly on activism, it’s stunningly obvious to Michelle that this cigarette- smoking smooth talker is desperately trying to woo her. As their epic encounter continues into evening and these fiercely bright minds go head- to- head, sparks fly. Southside With You takes plenty of poetic license to craft this charming, playful story out of true- life events, yet actors Tika Sumpter and Parker Sawyers embody the essence of two people matched in power, idealism, and intellect. As the second Obama presidential term winds down, it’s profound to consider just how serendipitous and consequential that day in 1. Michelle and Barack, but for America. Christine. Acquired: February 4. By: The Orchard. Purchase Price: Director: Antonio Campos. Starring: Rebecca Hall, Michael C. Hall, Maria Dizzia, Tracy Letts, J. Smith- Cameron. Other Info: Plot Synopsis: Christine (Rebecca Hall) is an ambitious 2. Sarasota, Florida, circa 1. Relentlessly motivated to succeed, she knows she has talent, but being a driven career woman in the 1. With ratings in the cellar, WZRB’s station manager issues a mandate to deliver juicier and more exploitative stories, a style firmly at odds with Christine’s serious brand of issue- based journalism. To accomplish her goals, she must overcome her self- doubt and give the people what they want. Life, Animated. Acquired: February 3. By: The Orchard. Purchase Price: Director: Roger Ross Williams. Starring: Owen Suskind, Ron Suskind. Other Info: Read our review here. Plot Synopsis: At three years old, a chatty, energetic little boy named Owen Suskind ceased to speak, disappearing into autism with apparently no way out. Almost four years passed and the only stimuli that engaged Owen were Disney films. Then one day, his father donned a puppet—Iago, the wisecracking parrot from. Aladdin—and asked “what’s it like to be you?” And poof! Owen replied, with dialogue from the movie. Life, Animated tells the remarkable story of how Owen found in Disney animation a pathway to language and a framework for making sense of the world. By evocatively interweaving classic Disney sequences with verite scenes from Owen’s life, the film explores how identification and empathy with characters like Simba, Jafar, and Ariel forge a conduit for him to understand his feelings and interpret reality. Beautiful, original animations further give form to Owen’s fruitful dialogue with the Disney oeuvre as he imagines himself heroically facing adversity in a tribe of sidekicks. With an arsenal of narratives at his disposal, Owen rises to meet the challenges of adulthood in this moving coming- of- age tale. The Hollars. Acquired: January 2. By: Sony Classics. Purchase Price: Director: John Krasinski. Starring: Krasinski, Margo Martindale, Richard Jenkins, Sharlto Copley, Anna Kendrick, Charlie Day, Josh Groban, Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Randall Park. Other Info: Sony Pictures Classics acquired all rights in the U. S. Read our review here. Plot Synopsis: John Krasinski’s big- hearted family comedy takes a touching look at the ties that bind. Krasinski plays John Hollar, a frustrated graphic novelist anxiously awaiting the birth of his baby with girlfriend, Rebecca (Anna Kendrick). When his mother, Sally (Margo Martindale), is diagnosed with a brain tumor, John flies back home, where denial runs deep in the family tree. While his loving but fractured family pulls together to prepare Sally for surgery, John takes a second look at the life he left behind. Krasinski, last seen at the Sundance Film Festival with his directorial debut Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (2. Hollar clan, leavening the heart- tugging drama with inspired character- driven comedy. The large ensemble cast (including Richard Jenkins, Sharlto Copley, Josh Groban, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, and Mary Kay Place) gives the relationships a lived- in feeling, while Krasinski offers a warm, funny, warts- and- all look at the importance of family. The Eagle Huntress. Acquired: February 1st. By: Sony Pictures Classics. Purchase Price: mid- seven- figure deal that includes select international territories including Australia, New Zealand, Latin America, Germany, Scandinavia and Asia. Director: Otto Bell. Starring: Other Info: One of the best reviewed documentaries at the festival. Star Wars star Daisy Ridley came on board as executive producer. Plot Synopsis: A teenager girl named Ashol- Pan living in the mountains of northwestern Mongolia becomes an eagle huntress. Frank And Lola. Acquired: January 2. By: Universal. Purchase Price: Universal has made a deal for most of the world for a minimum guarantee north of $2 million. Director: Matthew M.
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